Sunday, May 02, 2004
Apparently the M.P.'s are cracking down on Marines stationed on Okinawa doing their best Need For Speed: Underground imitations with real cars.
From Stars & Stripes, "'The most popular cars are Nissan Skylines and Toyota Supras — lightweight sports cars with manual transmissions,' the master sergeant said. 'On the busiest night we were out, there was a good-sized crowd, maybe a third of them Americans — 16 vehicles with Y-plates and 73 spectators.' Most apparently got the message that the MPs were on their case. On a recent Sunday, not a Y-plated car or American was to be found at the high-speed skids that showered spectators with atomized rubber. A few cars twirled out of control, coming to a stop just inches from parked cars. They recovered and quickly sped back on the course."
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Saturday, May 01, 2004
Classic games like Pong, Joust and Frogger brought about a new era in the world of entertainment. Many of us spent countless hours (and countless quarters) playing these game trying to immortalize our initials as the "Highest Score." Recently, a group in New York has thought of a way to revive the aging classic Pac-Man.
A group from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program have decided to take gaming to the next level. Dubbed Pac Manhattan, the group use the street layout and Washington Square Park in Manhattan to recreate the game layout and monitor each other by use of GPS, cell phone, and a vast array other technology. Don't you wish all classes in college were this fun?
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
Enrique Santos and co-host Joe Ferrero, hosts of a Miami radio show are being fined by the FCC for prank calling Cuban President Fidel Castro for $4000. In response to this decision, the talk show host vow to pay the fine... with 400,000 pennies.
From Yahoo! News- MIAMI (Reuters), "Two Miami radio hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) with a prank call are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.
Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so he and co-host Joe Ferrero will pay it with 400,000 cents, delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) in Washington.
'We prank-called a head of state in a country that is considered hostile to the United States. He's a violator of human rights and they're fining us $4,000,' Santos said on Tuesday. 'We just find it absurd.'
Santos and Ferrero host 'El Vacilon de la Manana,' or 'The Morning Joker,' show on Spanish-language radio station WXDJ-FM in Miami."
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From Yahoo! News- TEHRAN (Reuters), "Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the Islamic Republic?
Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days. Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the front pages.
State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.
More colorful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported."
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From Cnet NEWS, "Two anti-spyware bills are being readied in time for a hearing Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The measures, one sponsored by a California Republican and the other by a Washington Democrat, take different approaches toward software that lurks on a computer and serves pop-up ads or transmits personal information. But both make the same point: Official Washington is becoming officially fed up with the proliferation of spyware and adware. The new attention paid to malicious software follows last fall's unprecedented focus on unsolicited commercial e-mail.
'It may be this year's spam, if you will,' Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., said in an interview. 'We're recognizing that we have privacy rights at stake that could be abused and you have this increasing infestation of pop-up ads. That's a great impediment to people's use of this technology.' Computer makers and security firms say that spyware and adware problems have increased nearly tenfold in the last year."
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